Raiding the land of the foreigners /

What are the limits of national belonging? Focusing on Biak, a set of islands off the coast of western New Guinea, in the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya, Danilyn Rutherford's analysis calls for a rethinking of the nature of national identity. With the resurgence of separatism in the province...

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Main Author: Rutherford, Danilyn
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2003.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface: Becoming a foreigner
  • On the limits of Indonesia
  • Frontier families
  • The poetics of surprise
  • The authority of absence
  • Messianic modernities
  • The subjection of the Papuan
  • The subject of Biak?
  • Epilogue: On limits.